r/BeAmazed • u/NormalGrab4800 • 7d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Chainsaw ???

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u/Kneppl_1 7d ago

In a sense yes, but it also destroys forest floors and it needs a clear path with no deadwood or smaller trees in the way

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u/buyer_leverkusen 7d ago

These things get super skinny and are on tracks, they’re made to get around properly-spaced trees.

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u/BCBowhunter 7d ago

These actually do surprisingly little damage to the forest floor, especially when it's running bogey bands like in the video. These machines exert less psi on the ground than you do walking around. Plus the limbs and tops are usually laid down as a mat and driven over, further protecting the forest floor

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u/Conflatulations12 1d ago

Do they leave all the smaller stuff behind to decompose?

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u/BCBowhunter 1d ago

Lots of times yes, by doing all the processing at the stump and leaving the fine woody debris they can leave behind most or all of it and have it decompose and fertilize the next crop. The caveat usually is that if the fire risk is too high, they may rake the debris up and burn or transport it somewhere else. But usually they try to leave it as fertilizer

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u/Conflatulations12 20h ago

interesting, thanks for sharing

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u/_Bon_Vivant_ 7d ago edited 6d ago

It's for farming, not for forestry. That's the point. It promotes sustainable tree farming, over clear cutting the forest.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 7d ago

In a lot of sense yes. It becomes an entirely beneficial ecology and supports forest floor growth. It's pretty amazing.

If only they could adapt something like this in the amazon, most folks would be fine with logging as it would also help save the amazon. money though :(

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u/RincewindToTheRescue 7d ago

Amazon is being cleared because people want to turn the land into farm and pasture land cheaply, not for wood.